Three ways to pronounce CC

Hello students! I’ve noticed a pronunciation mistake that students frequently make with words like “success”: they say something like “sussess” pronouncing the CC like an S sound. But this is not correct – the CC in success is pronounced like KS – suk-SESS. It’s the same for suk-SEED and suk-SESS-ful.

But is the double C always pronounced this way in English? No! There are three different ways to pronounce it – actually it’s more like two major ways and one exception. Today we’re going to practice pronouncing 26 English words with CC. Listen and try to repeat after me.

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Pronounce CC like KS

The first way to pronounce CC is like KS. This happens when the CC is followed by an E or an I. Let’s try some words that have this pronunciation: